I've used amarok on my system since about version 2.2, I've played with other distros on other systems and it's always worked, but since the late 2.6s on my gentoo system, I started having trouble with it. Unstable just moved to 2.8, so I just built that with the hope that it would fix my problems, but again it just hung on me and I had to kill it.
I'm using a mysql database because I had hoped that I would get faster reactions out of my 26gb music collection. I have wiped and rebuilt that database and everything I could find under /home/user/ for configuration files, yet I continue to run into these crashes.
I reemerged everything on my system a couple of weeks ago, so all dependencies should be in order (as well as running revdep-rebuild every time I do an upgrade).
Thanks in Advance,
cctsurf

Here's the output of a session, 'till I killed it, I can output the debug output too, but I already see errors here.

sorry can't help; had similar problems and in the end
just got rid of amarok and installed clementine. It
works great (my collection is ca. 52gb)._________________.... there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth
doing as simply messing about with Linux ...
(apologies to Kenneth Graeme)